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\vho had been a Gardener, and that in 1(104, more than 

 200 acres had been tested by this experiment, at an ex- 

 pense of about 3 shillings per acre, and that as soon as 

 the tops were cutoff, the pods began to sw^ll, and in- 

 crease in their size, and that the period of ripening 

 was generally accelerated at least a fortnight. 



The fact above stated is of the highest importance, 

 because it goes to secure the bean crop amongst the 

 fallow crops, with a handsome profit, on its culture, 

 without injury to the soil, or the after crop. To be 

 able to select the soil which is best adapted to the 

 crop you wish to cultivate, and to prepare this soil by 

 manure and tillage to the best advantage, and thus 

 by a regular process to bring your crop to its highest 

 productive state of perfection, is truly a very import- 

 ant part of good farming ; but it is only a part. To 

 combine the cultivation of crops with a regular suc- 

 cession of other crops, so that each in succession 

 shall yield the greatest possible product, with ihe 

 least possible expense, and yet raise the productive 

 value of your soil, constitutes a second part of good 

 iarming ; but the great art of the whole is in dispos- 

 ing of these crops in such a manner as shall insure the 

 greatest aggregate value to the farm, and the stock, 

 and secure the greatest and most permanent annual 

 revenue ; this comprises the most difficult, and im- 

 portant art of good farming. All these combined ; 

 the fallow crops are calculated to produce, particular- 

 ly the potatoe, and the Heligoland bean, not except- 

 ing the white bean, particularly the 1000 for one, (so 

 called.) The Bean should be harvested as soon as 

 the eye has attained a deep colour, or the leaf turned 

 yellow, and cured in the nicest manner ; it may be 

 housed, or threshed in the field, if the weather is fair* 



Gypsum. 



No one article of rural economy has proved so use- 

 ful, and no one has excited so much speculation and 



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